Concept
Reformed orthodoxy
Overview
era in the history of Calvinism
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The colonial seventeenth century was one which, like John Cotton, regularly sweetened its mouth "with a piece of Calvin." One need not be reminded that Calvinism was inveterately and completely antithetical to the dogma of the Enlightenment.[i-23] Calvinistic bibliolatry contended with "the sacred book of nature." Its wrathful though just Deity was unlike the compassionate, virtually depersonalized Deity heralded in…
Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
Close in meaning to Reformed orthodoxy; the term itself is not named.
This all-embracing and all-absorbing power of the church lasted about a thousand years and ended with the Reformation, though it had begun to decline some two centuries earlier. For this condition of things the Roman empire had prepared the way. It was the prototype to which, in part unconsciously and in part consciously, ecclesiastical authority was made to conform. Notwithstanding the fact that the Gospel was…
Charles William Super, Between Heathenism and Christianity
Close in meaning to Reformed orthodoxy; the term itself is not named.
Here Calvinism proved itself to be the natural religious garb of the interests of the existing rule of the bourgeois and was not realised any further than that the revolution of 1689 was completed by a compromise between a portion of the nobility and the middle-class. The English Established Church was restored, but not in its earlier form with the king for Pope, but was strongly infused with Calvinism.
Friedrich Engels, Feuerbach
Close in meaning to Reformed orthodoxy; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Anglicanism
- Arminianism
- Cartesianism
- Philosophy
- John Calvin
- Jesuits
- Natural theology
- Lutheranism
- Counter-Reformation
- Predestination
- Puritans
- Presbyterianism
- René Descartes
- Protestantism
- Orthodoxy
- Renaissance humanism
- Theology
- Trinity
- Age of Enlightenment
- Reformation
- Polemic
- Heidelberg
- Robert Bellarmine
- Reformed Christianity
Place in the tradition
Part of Scottish philosophy.